Cool video: iPhone and Microsoft Surface mashup

Stimulant has created an interesting mashup between the iPhone and the …

The Microsoft-Apple battle has been raging for ages, and when the iPhone and Microsoft Surface were announced, trolls squirmed with excitement at the prospect of yet another completely different pair of products to compare and bash. So if you're like me, you may find the video below a breath of fresh air. Stimulant, the developer of the sample application, describes it by saying:

XRay is a mashup of Microsoft Surface and the iPhone. Stimulant created a Surface application that reveals photographs, but by laying an iPhone on Surface, more layers of imagery are revealed, synced in real time with the upper image layers shown on Surface. The only limit to how many iPhones can be used at once is, well, how many iPhones you have handy.

Without further ado, here's the video:

If you're wondering, this works on Windows Mobile and Android phones as well. Stimulant was inspired by the Microsoft Research project that demonstrated "Second Light," a new variation of the company's Surface technology, at PDC 2008. For sake of reference, I've also embedded the video of that technology below: